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LG stops making Blu-ray players, marking the end of an era — limited units remain while inventory lasts (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Digital streaming is displacing the last remnants of physical media.

In a disappointing turn of events, FlatpanelsHD reports that LG has ended production of its Blu-ray player series, which includes the UBK80 and UBK90 models. With limited stock available, prospective buyers should act quickly to secure the last remaining units before they are sold out.

After Samsung and Sony's departure from physical media, LG was one of the last major manufacturers of Blu-ray players

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

That was true a while back, but yes drives have gotten way better.

That's just failure rate though, not data loss. You need your drives using a sane file system like zfs or using raid 1/10/6 where discs can do error checking as well to prevent silent data loss.

They also need to be powered on. Offline drives will lose data to bit rot over time.

[–] daggermoon 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What about btrfs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

ZFS is better.

[–] daggermoon 1 points 5 days ago

What about it is better?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

ZFS is unfortunately not in the upstream Linux Kernel :/

Btrfs is worse in many aspects but I like its flexibility of adding drives with different capacities over time.

[–] daggermoon 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

How did we get becachefs upstreamed but not ZFS?

Edit: Nevermind, it's licensing related

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

OpenZFS works just fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

The lifetimes have improved, but according to your link, the currently measured average age of a drive at failure is 2 years, 10 months. They expect that to increase as they roll over to newer, more reliable drives. These drives are under heavy use, unlike drives used for offline storage, but still it's not really the kind of lifespan you'd ideally want in an archival medium.